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Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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The Conservatives warned last night the ministerial code was “in tatters” after the prime minister insisted there was no need for an investigation into John Prescott’s behaviour. Tony Blair told BBC One’s The Politics Show yesterday that suggestions his deputy had broken the code in his meetings with American billionaire Philip Anschutz were not backed… Read more »
Tony Blair has robustly denied the allegations that peerages were given to wealthy Labour donors who gave the party loans prior to the last general election. The prime minister explained that the lines between honours and working peerages had become blurred, and this was what lay behind the cash-for-peerages scandal. “Nobody in the Labour party… Read more »